Racing Manhattan by Terrence Blacker

“Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besdies and exraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro.  When, in a desperate attmept to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan – brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing’s scrap heap. Recognizing a fellow misfit, Jay fights to give Manhattan on last opportunity to show that she’s the champion she was born to be. Together they face a world of prejudice and cruelty, fighting back the only way they know how – by becoming the best.”
©2016 Terence Blacker, original book published by Candlewick Press. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.